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Originally Posted by Shotgun

Well, this won't be popular, but here goes. I don't think Toyota has an unfair engine advantage like everyone wants to talk about. Sure, they may have a little more HP, but you have to give them credit where it's due. When the new engine rule for N'wide came out, it was up to every manufacturer to adapt their engines for the tapered spacer. Dodge and Toyota are neck in neck in HP ratings according to the previous dyno tests. Ford and Chevy say they are 5-20 hp off. Now, NASCAR should have allowed Chevy to use the new R07 engines in N'wide, which would have helped. I'm not up on the Ford engine program, so I can't speak for them. However, to be honest, I think that a change in midstream is a dumb move. Childress spanked everyone's butt in Busch last year, but there weren't any calls for help from other manufacturers. I think Toyota and Dodge did there homework on this new engine package while Ford and Chevy sat around thinking they would be okay since they had success last year. The only difference is that Toyota has better teams than Dodge in the N'wide series.

the other thing i have been thinking of is that its not toyota. its Gibbs. has any other toyota team won in N'wide?